![]() In the loft of his Hampshire family home, this young boy hears her final words.Īnd that boy's name? Frank Turner, of course. Tragically, the only one to hear Christa's last broadcast is a four year-old radio-ham operator 4000 nautical miles away. She called out the truth on a broken radio: As the O rings fail and Christa "dies", she sees another world.įor the next agonising two minutes and forty-five long seconds The weirdest song Frank Turner has ever written spins an eerie anecdote about the death of Challenger astronaut Christa McAuliffe. With Camouflage's help, the soldier finds his way back to base where he discovers, "things are never quite the way they seem". Luckily there's a big marine called Camouflage on hand to save him. In the lonely jungles of Viet Nam, a young Private First Class on a search patrol gets separated from his platoon and soon finds himself surrounded by Charlie. If you only know Nina when she's Feelin' Good. The final verse, with Jenny riding away on that ship, is more chilling than anything you'll have seen on Tales of the Unexpected. Then a ghostly pirate ship arrives in the harbour and things get really dark. Nina relocated Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's bloodthirsty tale of Jenny the Pirate Girl from Germany to South Carolina and turned it into a violent Tarantino-esque revenge fantasy about a young slave girl who's mad as hell and just won't take it any more. but Daniels pulls it off by casting Johnny Cash as the narrator. But have you heard the sequel, The Devil Comes Back To Georgia? It almost doesn't work. The devil's in the house of the risin' sun.Ĭhicken in the bread pan, now they're pickin' out dough.Įveryone knows this song, of course. and then the ending was anybody's guess.Īnd he played fire on the mountain, run boys, run. The great thing about it is that the Twilight Zone twist is apparent from the first line - people often think of the Twilight Zone as a show where the stories turned weird at the end, whereas very often they started with a twist. The song owes a lot to the legend of Robert Johnson - although it's a fiddle rather than a guitar that Johnny's risking his soul for in this version. The Devil Went Down To Georgia, on the other hand, is not only the real deal - it was Daniels' biggest hit. Some will tell you Charlie's The Legend of Wooley Swamp is better Twilight Zone material, but it's a bog standard tale of revenge from beyond the grave, if you ask me (though still very entertaining). Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down to Georgia and now there's no one to interrupt his reading! Joy! Then he stumbles and drops his reading glasses and they shatter.ĩ. Emerging from a basement library one lunchtime, he discovers the bomb has dropped and he's the only survivor. You know, the one where bibliophile Burgess Meredith wishes people would leave him alone so he could have more time to read his books. The only song on this list actually inspired by a specific episode of The Twilight Zone: and it's one of my favourite episodes too. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone."Īnd when you get there, these ten songs may well be playing from a broken radio. ![]() ![]() It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. "There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man.
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